CIPD President: Why line managers are crucial to wellbeing

Sir Cary Cooper is a Professor, Psychologist and President of the CIPD. Described as the “media’s first choice for comment on workplace issues”, he knows a thing or two about employee wellbeing.

As Lead Scientist on the Foresight Review of Mental Capital and Wellbeing, Cooper has spent years researching workforce wellbeing and how organisational structures can impact their staff – in both a positive and negative manner.

HR Grapevine managed to catch him at the Robertson Cooper Good Day at Work event, with Cooper keen to explain that wellbeing programmes have got to be about more than just engagement.

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“More HR professionals, who are wanting to take part in wellbeing, are getting fed up of just doing engagement,” Cooper said, “engagement is just one part of the puzzle of wellbeing.